It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.

The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

I love, love, love this show. One of the funniest shows on PBS that I have seen. I have been watching it for two years and look forward every week to the next episode. The cast work off each other better than any other show I watch. Absolutely worth watching!!!! Easch week you don't know what will happen, but you do know you will be laughing. And the best is when Geraldine and Alice are sitting at the table and Geraldine tells a joke and Alice's reaction. This week I finally saw the first show and I am hoping that the show is starting from the beginning again so I can have the pleasure of seeing all the seasons. I have shared this show with my friends and they were very happy that I did. One of the best things about this show is that the cast is small and you get to know them so well. Each week you feel like you are part of Dibley Village and you are right there with the people visiting and sharing in their experiences.

I suppose all good things and all that but I for one will be sorry to see it go. The finale sees Dibley's Vicar, Geraldine, meet the man of her dreams and get married. Some excellent performances and brilliant farcical moments meant that by the end my sides were hurting from laughing. As ending go this was one of the better ones (some show let themselves down on the final episode).The Vicar of Dibley has to go down in history as one of this country's finest and funniest sit coms ever. It has all the making of a classic and will join Fawlty Towers, Only Fools & Horses etc as an all time great.

Firstly, don't get me wrong. To begin with I thought the Vicar of Dibley was a great comedy, full of good story lines, interesting and eccentric characters and a lot of genuine laughs.However it has been a case of diminishing returns for some years now. Just look at the episode guide and see the large gaps in production of the series, so disjointed that in 12 years only 23 episodes were produced, in the same period a successful American comedy would probably output around 250 episodes. The first series or two were brilliant, but then the superior Father Ted came in and when VoD does return it feels more tired each time. It probably should have ended after this point. It is a mystery to me why British comedies struggle to maintain quality for more than two series, but it is nonetheless true that most sitcoms produced in this country end after either two seasons (Fawlty Towers being the prime example - and John Cleese looks more sensible for doing so all the time) or after three possibly. because the third series did not match the first two (Black Books).I was surprised to like it at all since I am no fan of Dawn French, but I found that without Jennifer Saunders she can be very funny. My opinion changed in the last two episodes however as the programme rapidly descended into the 'Dawn French Show,' with her running round screaming and generally leaving other characters with very little to say. This brings me to the conclusion that much of the praise that this comedy deserves belongs to Emma Chambers as Alice who plays the village idiot exceptionally well. Other characters like Roger Lloyd-Pack as Owen started off well but has more recently become a one-joke sheep farmer stereotype which only needed a Welsh accent to reach rock-bottom.Based on the early episodes, Vicar of Dibley deserves an 8 or 9 out of 10, but the last few series have been increasingly poor in comparison so I have awarded it 5/10.

Dawn French who believed it or not turned down an O.B.E. (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) with her comedy and professional partner, Jennifer Saunders in 2000, is worth watching alone. She is one of the funniest women in the United Kingdom or worldwide. The show is funny and worth watching over and over again. I love watching Emma Chambers who is better known to audiences for her role in "Notting Hill" with Julia Roberts. As Alice, she is purely divine and innocently funny. The popular Liz Smith (not the gossip columnist from New York City) is better known to audiences as the grandmother and has appeared in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and "Oliver Twist" is also memorable for her role as Letitia. Why they took her away, I'll never know because she's still working at 85 years old. They have an Easter episode worth watching again and again and a Christmas episode that you won't believe. I don't remember the other cast members but Geraldine as the Vicar is one of the most memorable and familiar faces to have made an enormous dent in this British comedy. Forget Absolutely Fabulous, this show is absolutely fabulous and better than that show than it could ever could.